taste-skill

taste-skill is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yc-software/qm. It costs 50 tokens per session (1,070 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design process for things people view in a web browser, such as landing pages, dashboards, prototypes, and presentations. It provides guidance for choosing visual styles, spacing, colors, typography, and components.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building or polishing a browsable app, dashboard, landing page, prototype, status page, or deck, including work that follows an organization's house style.
Why use it?
Generated browser interfaces can look generic or inconsistent without deliberate design decisions. This helps establish a coherent visual language before writing the page.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

About the project

QM is a shared work environment for coding agents that gives each employee and conversation an isolated workspace while allowing collaboration in Slack and on the web. Startups use it to run agents for individuals, teams, and company operations, with selectable harnesses and models. The catalogue entries extend QM with skills, instructions, and settings.

yc-software/qm · 14,562 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yc-software/qm/taste-skill
Any agent
npx skills add yc-software/qm --skill taste-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yc-software/qm

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,070 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00050 $0.01070
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00535
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00214
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00107

Measured 5d ago against content hash 3cafb80e638f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

taste-skill scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills-seed/taste-skill/SKILL.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Taste skill (design process for a browsable artifact)

Use this whenever you are about to build something a person will look at — a published app or dashboard, a landing or status page, a prototype or deck. It carries the design process; the anti-slop playbook in references/tasteskill.md carries the visual taste.

House style comes first

Unless the user asks for a different look, the default visual system is your organization's house style: if the deployment installs a *-design skill (list skills/), read it and apply its tokens — color, type, spacing, components. Depart from it only when the user names a different brand or asks for a one-off exploration.

If the user wants a known brand's look (Stripe, Linear, Vercel, Notion…), read skills/popular-web-designs/SKILL.md for the visual vocabulary and let this skill drive the process.

The playbook

references/tasteskill.md is the full anti-slop playbook: read the brief before picking an aesthetic, set the variance/motion/density dials, pick a real design system, and run the pre-flight check before you call it done. Read it before you write markup for anything externally facing or high-fidelity. Two adjustments for this runtime:

  • The block library it describes (its Section 12) is a schema, not shipped files. There is no blocks/ directory here — build the block and keep it in your workspace.
  • It targets landing pages, portfolios, and redesigns. For dense product UI, admin panels, and data tables, take its accessibility and anti-tell sections and leave the rest.

Runtime

You have a real computer, not a hosted design canvas. Build the artifact as files in your workspace, verify it locally, and when it should outlive the turn ship it with the publish skill (skills/publish/SKILL.md).

  • write / read / execute — author files, install deps, run build steps.
  • background — run a dev server (PORT=8080 node server.js) so you can look at it.
  • local headless Chromium — confirm the page renders, the content is there, no console errors, layout and links intact: chromium --headless --no-sandbox --disable-gpu --dump-dom http://localhost:<port> (or --screenshot=/tmp/page.png, then read the image). Nothing you baked in leaves the computer to be checked.

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 87 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 3cafb80e638f

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taste-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository yc-software/qm (14,562 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 1,070 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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